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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

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A Journey into Memory: Platform 21

02-05-2006
An exhibition prepared by the Children of the Shoah Association, the Cultural Affairs Office at the Jewish Community in Milan, and the Foundation for Jewish Documentation in Milan will be open from April 25 to June 10, 2006 in the main hall of the Visitors Reception building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Who Donated Money for the Remembrance Mound? Museum Rejected Support from a Questionable Donor

27-04-2006
Did the mayor of the city of Oświęcim accept a financial donation from representatives of a dangerous Japanese sect for the construction of a Remembrance and Reconciliation Mound? The Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry has counseled extreme caution in contacts with the Agon Shu Buddhist Association.

The 15th March of the Living

25-04-2006
About 8 thousand people joined in the 15th March of the Living. There were several hundred Poles among them. In remembrance of the Nazi victims murdered in Auschwitz, they marched from the gate bearing the inscription Arbeit macht frei at Auschwitz I to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

Rudolf Vrba Dies at 82. He was one of the few who managed to escape from the camp.

21-04-2006
Thanks to Polish civilians and escapees from the camp, the world learned the truth about the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp while the war was still on.

Volunteers To Collect Accounts by Former Auschwitz Prisoners

14-04-2006
Bielsko Biała, April 11 (PAP-Polish Press Agency). About 70 volunteers are taking part in an Oral History project under the auspices of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The goal is to collect the greatest possible number of accounts by former Auschwitz prisoners, MCEAH information section head Jacek Lech told a press conference on Tuesday.

A Good Conclusion to Stage Two—Now Let’s See Stage Three. Money for Oświęcim from the GOSP

13-04-2006
The Polish government has appropriated 7.72 million zloty, double last year’s figure, for the Oświęcim program, which supports investment in this place that is special for both Poland and the world. The official documents were signed yesterday in the office of the voivode (provincial governor).